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      Wayland Clients Can Now Survive Qt Wayland Crashes / Compositor Restarts

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

    A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes...
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      IOCB_NOWAIT For Linux Pipes Yields 10~23x Performance Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

    In wanting to avoid waiting for pipes via the IOCB_NOWAIT option in order to further enhance IO_uring performance, Jens Axboe has implemented said functionality and in a simple test is seeing 10x to 23x performance improvements...
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      RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

    If you are an AMD Radeon RX 7900 series "RDNA3" GPU owner and don't mind running bleeding-edge open-source graphics driver code, you'll want to pull down today's Mesa 23.1-devel Git snapshot...
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      Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting From Ubuntu Base To Debian Sid

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

    One of the newer Linux distributions that has been making waves is Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux that aims to provide a pleasant Linux desktop experience, close to upstream, and is augmented by the growing selection of Flatpak packages. Now though the project has decided to move from Ubuntu Linux as its base over to Debian Sid...
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      Python 3.12 Alpha 6 Released With More Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

    Python 3.12 Alpha 6 was released on Tuesday as the newest development release toward this next major Python release...
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      Intel Releases x86-simd-sort v1.0 Library For High Performance AVX-512 Sorting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    Last month you may recall the news of Intel having an extremely fast AVX-512 sorting library they published as open-source and found adoption already by the popular Numpy Python library. In the case of Numpy it could deliver some 10~17x speed-ups. That header-only library has now reached version 1.0...
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      AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    Following last week's review of the brand new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and then moving on to looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D gaming performance, today's Linux hardware coverage on Phoronix is looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux performance in other system/CPU workloads aside from gaming.
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      Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    After being in development for several months, Asahi Lina with the Asahi Linux project has posted the initial Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem abstractions for review as well as a preview of the experimental state of the AGX DRM driver providing the open-source kernel graphics driver support for Apple M1/M2 hardware...
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      Intel Preparing IAA Crypto Compression Driver - Kernel Crypto API Use For Accelerators

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    In addition to Intel's Linux patches in recent days working on broad performance optimizations that can benefit all hardware there has also been some Intel-specific kernel improvements being worked on like the Sapphire Rapids C0.2 idle state support that was published for review on Monday. Also coming out from the covers on Monday was a new patch series for the "iaa_crypto" driver to improve the Linux support for Intel's In-Memory..